Unscramble WENDIGO and you have 125 words, WENDIGO itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 12 points: WIDGEON and WONGIED. Among the shorter answers, 4 reach 11 points, WINGED, DEWING and DOWING among them. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of WENDIGO at once for 62 in Scrabble (12 + 50) or 49 in Words With Friends (14 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from WENDIGO split into 3 with 7 letters, 5 with 6, 20 with 5, 31 with 4, 46 with 3 and 20 with 2.
GOWD tops the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble WENDIGO at 9 points; next come DOWN and GNOW on 8. DONE, WIDE and WINE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of WENDIGO but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with WE · ending in GO · all 7-letter words
WENDIGO first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept WENDIGO, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| WENDIGO itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 125) | 101 | 125 | 93 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: WONGIED, INDEW, NOWED, WINGE, WONGI, GNOW, WEID, DEG, DOEN, INGO, NIED, DEI and 12 more, 24 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: GWINE, OWIE, DENI, DINO, EW, NEG, GI and OI, 8 in all.
Each word below uses all the letters of WENDIGO and one more.